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your support. So did you hear about Letitia James? I
was going to mispronounce her name in a comical way,
but I don't want I don't want to run a
foul of any FCC rules, So I'm just gonna call
her Letitia James, new York's attorney general, the woman who
ran a campaign on getting Trump, got elected on it
in New York City, and then proceeded to to go
after Trump and get him and get a whole massive
settlement against him or verdict if you will, against him,
like half a billion dollars on his in thirty four
indictments and thirty four convictions. That everybody on the left
is always you know, parody, So yeah, she's got a
bit of a problem. Now apparently it has to do
with submitting false paperwork, ironically, the very thing that she
accused Trump of, Like maybe that's how she know like
where to look for the violations of law. So the
fh FA, which is the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Okay,
the FHFA, or as I call it, the FUFFA. The
director of the FUFFA is William Pulti. And if that
name sounds familiar, it's because he built a lot of homes.
Poulti homes. That's this guy. And so he sent a
letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that Letitia James appears
to have falsified records to meet certain lending requirements, which
got her favorable loan terms on a house. I think
it's a property in Virginia, which is not contrary to
popular belief, that is not part of New York. Okay,
she has a home in Virginia that apparently she was
claiming as her principal residence. But it's a four unit structure,
but that's what she said it was, But it's actually
a five unit structure. So you got five units. She's
claiming there are four, and one of them she resides
in in Virginia as the election did attorney General of
New York, which, funny enough, you're supposed to be a
resident of New York to serve as the Attorney General
of New York. Little known fact, you actually have to
live in the place that you run for the office.
What do you think this is the Senate? The Senate?
I mean, come on, all right, New York Attorney General
Letitia James, who infamously declared that no one is above
the law. Yeah, yeah, they got a lot of mileage
out of that one. They're still using it on the left.
New York Post reports that she was hit with a
federal criminal referral for instances of alleged mortgage fraud. The
FUFFA director William Pulty, sent the letter to Pambondy and
her deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, alleging that Letitia James
had falsified record to get home loans for a property
in Virginia that she claimed was her principal residence in
twenty twenty three. So this isn't This isn't from a long, long,
long long time ago. So who cares, Oh, you youthful
indiscretion or something. No, she's still serving as New York
State Prosecutor when she did this. That occurred in late
August twenty twenty three weeks before she began her civil
fraud trial against the Trump Organization for overinflating the values
of many of its properties, which ended in a four
hundred and fifty four million dollar judgment, despite the fact
that there was no victim, no victim in any of
that right, we went over the details on that case.
This is why, like when people say, oh, eh, good
Victor thirty four filares, like, yeah, it was ridiculous. There
was no victim in that case. The appraisals of property
to get loan loans and stuff in the bank, that's
on them to do their due diligence and determine whether
or not the property is correctly valued. They determined it was,
They said it was. They were happy with the terms
of the deal. They wanted more deals with Trump. They
wanted to give him more loans. Miss James was the
sitting Attorney General of New York and is required by
law to have her primary residence in the state of
New York, even though her mortgage applications list her intent
to have the Norfolk, Virginia property as her primary home. Quote,
it appears Miss James's property and mortgage related misrepresentations may
have continued to her recent twenty twenty three Norfolk, Virginia
property purchase in order to secure a lower interest rate
and more favorable loan terms. Now that's from twenty three
way back in February of two thousand and one, so
this is pre nine eleven. In two thousand and one,
she also purchased a five family dwelling in Brooklyn, but
has quote consistently misrepresented the same property as only having
four units in both building permit applications as well as
numerous mortgage documents and applications. Okay, so the four or
five units is a different property. She's been doing that
for twenty five years. Apparently it's claiming it's four units
when in fact it's five, which I suspect might have
something to do with a lower tax rate or something.
I don't know. Poulty attached several documents also showing Letitia
James purchased another property. So I guess this is a
third property with her father as a co signer. Okay,
so she bought something with her dad, although she listed
him as her husband.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: With these Democrat women marrying their relatives. Elan Omar, Mary's
her brother. Now Leticia James married her dad. No, I
don't know if this was just a simple mistake, Like
we have to keep this in mind. It's possible she's
just really bad at figuring out how to fill out
the paperwork, which is why she was uniquely qualified to
lead the prosecution against Donald Trump's paperwork case. Right, but
she falsely listed the pair as husband and wife in
nineteen eighty three and in two thousand, so she's been
doing it for a while. I don't know if her
other is she married now, I don't even know if
she's married. Here's the response from a spokesman for her
Aufice quote, Attorney General James is focused every single day.
You know you're about to hear some crap when they
start with that line, right, focused every single day on No,
you're not. The fact that the fact that this has
come out means that you are now having to focus
on this, and you're telling me that you're focusing on
the needs of others and that this somehow gives you
like some moral shield or something against the allegations of wrongdoing.
It's yeah, I don't. Anytime anybody starts off a statement
like that, I know I'm going to get fed some garbage.
So James is focused every single day on protecting New Yorkers,
especially as this administration weaponizes the federal government against the
rule of law in the Constitution. She will not be
intimidated by bullies, no matter who they are. Doesn't actually
deny any of the allegations there. Have you noticed that, right?
And it's a little bit rich when the person who
ran for office saying that she was going to target
her political enemy and then wins and then does it.
It is complaining now about the weaponization of government. I
keep saying it. Recognize where we are, you guys on
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it just it couldn't happen to a nicer person. Now.
The letter that was sent by Pulty to Pambondi, Pulty
to Bondy about James, it could amount to criminal charges
including wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, and false statements
to a financial institution. Criminal charges here. So this isn't
like what Trump got in trouble with the civil side
of stuff, right, like that's these are these are criminal charges,
Like she could do time for this if she did it,
if it's only alleged the documents included in the referral.
According to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, he
called it quite damning. He said, these are misleading statements.
Either it's your principal residence or it's not. Either you're
married to your father or he's your father. Whoa, whoa whoa.
It can be both there, Turley, I mean, not legally.
But the criminal referral for James dropped the same day
that her office confirmed it is preliminary scrut preliminary scrutinizing
whether insider trading was in play regarding the ninety day pause.
President Trump put on the reciprocal tariffs last week. Have
you heard this this nuttery? It's not insider trading, lady.
He posted it on Twitter. He said, good, good time
to buy? Right, a great time to buy? He posted
on truth Social Sorry he doesn't post on Twitter anymore.
He's Yeah, it's not a full fledged probe yet, but
they're taking a look. It's a preliminary scrutinization, I think
under the law is what it's called. It's not clear
if there are any specific people or companies that are
being reviewed. Trump declared, this is you know what. She
takes every uh, every conspiracy theory that that you know,
bubbles up out of the left wing fever swamps and
turns it into a case. Right. She hears this stuff
from her. This is why I always say, right, unchallenged
ideas are easy to hold. You got to have people
in your life that disagree with you on some stuff.
And if you are completely surrounded by just various degrees
of left wing moon bats, then this is all you're hearing.
And they're like, oh, I'm gonna go look at that.
This is really and maybe it's just a fundraiser play.
You know, maybe it's just I'm going to keep the
base angry and motivated so they keep, you know, sending
money to Act Blue so we can keep that money
laundering operation going. But I don't know, maybe it's that
she really thinks that she can nail Trump because he
posted on truth social that it's a great time to
buy just before the US markets opened on April ninth,
because the indexes were in free fall, right because he
had announced the tariffs. The markets start crashing over the
course of like two days, and then he posts out
great time to buy, and then later that day he
announced says that he is postponing all of the customized
tariff rates and doing the ten percent baseline duty, and
then the market goes back up. So that's insider trading.
Maybe go take a look, Letitia, go take a look.
No one is above the law, including you. Right now,
there is one element of this story that I think
she's going to I think she's going to rely on.
Letitia James granted power of attorney to a person by
the name of uh shame Ice Chamis Shami Chami J
S H A. M. I. C. E. Sham Ice Is
this person's name again with the dickenzie in names sham ice.
She's telling us right there. Anyway, However, attorney was granted
to Chemise Thompson Hairston, okay, relative of hers, and this
person signed a document authorizing the purchase of the first property,
according to legal filings reported by White Collar Fraud is
the outlet News outlet. So I think she's going to
say that all of this is just a misunderstanding, just
a mistake, and it was this person, Chemise Thompson Hairston,
who just made a mistake on filing some paperwork. I
bet that's where this goes. Somebody's got to go under
that bus. All right. If you're listening to this show,
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talk with Jonathan. Hello, Jonathan, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks traveling me on, sir.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: Hey? I wanted to comment upon the thing you were
saying about how it can't be insider trading.
Speaker 1: I didn't say it. I didn't say it couldn't be
because I didn't say it couldn't be.
Speaker 2: Oh well, maybe you implied I was saying.
Speaker 1: I say that he posted it on social media.
Speaker 2: Yes, and therefore it How could it be insider trading
because everybody knew about it?
Speaker 1: That's what he posted out to everybody. That's and then
what did I say after that, Jonathan, or were you
too busy dialing to get on the show after I
said that? Because what I said right after, because what
I said right after that was I don't know. Maybe
there was stuff going on behind the scenes. I don't
know that.
Speaker 2: Fine, let's let's move on to my point. Yes, by
point being yeah, my point being that I've seen a
chart that shows buying and selling on the stock market
immediately before, immediately after his announcement of the ninth day
moratorium on the tariffs, and you can see right when
he announced it, a whole bunch of purchasing went on,
which is all well and good, But immediately preceding that,
before the announcement, there was a smaller blip that was
anomalist because it wasn't anywhere near the volume just before.
That's that other blip where it shows that somebody for
some reason was all of a sudden buying a bunch
of stocks before the announcement. And that would be inside
if that's what occurred.
Speaker 1: If that's what unless it's unless it was Congress.
Speaker 2: Unless it was Congress, Oh well, it could have been anybody.
Speaker 1: It could have been members of Congress, because they don't
they're allowed to inside.
Speaker 2: Well, obviously, somebody who knew that the tariff moratorium was
coming on took advantage of it. You don't know that
that was.
Speaker 1: No, you don't know that. You don't know that, though
you're speculating.
Speaker 2: About that person who's responsible.
Speaker 1: For Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, you don't know. You don't know
what that blip was. You don't know that that's what occurred.
Speaker 2: Well, we could all be ostriches and put our heads in.
Speaker 1: The same What you're doing, Jonathan, what you're doing is
motivated reasoning. That's what you're engaged in right now. You
have a you have a belief that this thing occurred,
and you may even have also.
Speaker 2: I'm also presenting a scenario that is no farther out
of line from a conspiracy theory that we hear every
day on this radio station.
Speaker 1: What conspiracy theory is that? Which conspiracy theories have you
heard me promote?
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I said the radio station. They
didn't say you. Maybe you're a perfectly buying, upstanding host.
But there are others.
Speaker 1: So name name a theory that's that's been promulgated on
WBT that you have just.
Speaker 2: To all the stuff about masks, all the stuff about.
Speaker 1: What about masks? Well, let's start with masks. What about masks?
Speaker 2: All the stuff about Trump's what about.
Speaker 1: What a wait, what did you just say, not getting
shot or getting shot?
Speaker 2: No, I'm getting zer getting shot. I believe it was shot.
But there's lots of conspiracy theories about how he stayed,
which I don't believe.
Speaker 1: Nobody has promulgated that on WBT.
Speaker 2: No, No, they're not. I'm just talking about in general.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you for. I'm asking you for the conspiracy
theories that have been promoted or promulgated, espoused whatever by
the hosts here at WBT. I'm genuinely curious to know
what those might be.
Speaker 2: Well, I would, I would be curious to document it,
but I haven't done so.
Speaker 1: No, just one that you remember.
Speaker 2: All I can tell you is that I had listened
to the show fairly frequently, and I've heard stuff that
was truly outrageous. Cannot cite two exact examples because they
didn't write them down.
Speaker 1: You don't have to write them down. That's the thing
is something is so outrageous, like you would remember it
because that's what outrageous means. Like you, you would know
it would be very memorable. You said masks, Well, you
said masks, what about them? What was the thing about.
Speaker 2: We're getting off track.
Speaker 1: No, I'm impeaching, No, I'm impeaching your credibility, Jonathan. I'm
explaining I was.
Speaker 2: You know, I would do the exact same thing if
I were you, because you don't want anybody to get
on your radio station and god forbid disagree with you
about anything.
Speaker 1: You've been on the air for four and a half
minutes doing exactly that. I'm just engaging. And this is
why I say unchallenged ideas are easy to hold. And
I think that's what's going on with you here, is
that you're saying this thing and I'm pushing back and
I'm testing your argument. I'm finding it to be lacking,
and I think you're on the You're a bit defensive
about that. What's that that I have? I've seen the chart.
I don't know and and here's the difference, though, is
that I don't know what occurred. And that's all I
was saying. Well, see, so, Jonathan, why did you get
so Jonathan? Why did you react the way Jonathan.
Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness, trumpstration is the only people who knew
about the ninety day moratorium, So somehow it leaked out
from the administration.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's also not known to you either, because
Donald Trump says stuff all the time, day to day,
hour to hour that his staff and aids and advisors
have no freaking idea what he's about to say. He
reverses himself all the time.
Speaker 2: Responsibility for him.
Speaker 1: No. Look, all I'm saying, Jonathan, is that you don't know,
and you just admitted that that's true. You don't know,
You're so that's why I said you're engaged, right, And
that's why I said you're engaged in motivated reasoning. You
are ascribing the reason for this based on your prior beliefs,
based on your opinions. That's all I was saying. And
you got very upset that I pointed this out.
Speaker 2: But it's not very upset. I'm just happy that you
found a way to cloud the issue.
Speaker 1: I'm not clouding the issue, Jonathan.
Speaker 2: Unacceptable for our people to listen to because it's contrary
to what you want the world to believe.
Speaker 1: What do I want the world to believe?
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's agenda everything related to it.
Speaker 1: That's me. You totally nailed me. I can tell you
listen to my show all the time because I have been.
I have been banging the drum for Donald Trump since
he came down the Golden escalator. I can't vote for
the guy enough times. Totally nailed me. Thank you for
the call, Jonathan. I appreciate that. Spoiler alert. I actually
did not support Donald Trump. Jonathan knows that, I guess
because he listens to the station all the time and so,
but he doesn't document all the most outrageous things or something.
So yeah, So look, Letitia James wants to pursue Donald
Trump for insider training, go ahead and do it, just
like Donald Trump's doj is now pursuing her, right, go
ahead and do it. Single set of standards here, right,
No one is above the law. One rule for everybody
to play by.
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All right, So, two committees in North Carolina the General
Assembly voted last week to approve legislation that would ban
certain foreign entities China from acquiring farmland in the state. Okay,
So there's a House bill, and there's a Senate bill,
House Bill one thirty three, Senate Bill three ninety four
one thirty three, House Bill one thirty three would prohibit
quote unquote adversarial foreign governments from purchasing, acquiring, or leasing
agricultural land in North Carolina. According to the bill text,
the restrictions would also apply to land situated within a
seventy five mile radius of a military installation. So that's
basically the whole state, I'm kidding, well, a good part
of it, though a number influenced by National defense recommendations.
According to the bill sponsor, that's where they got the
seventy five mile radius. Fort Bragg is near Fayetteville. Complete
list of the applicable installations is outlined in the bill text,
but the bill sponsor, Jennifer Balcom from Henderson County, says,
if it was up to me, I would do the
entire state banded throughout the entire state. But this doesn't
infringe on private property rights. You can sell it to
anybody except a foreign national that's an adversary against the
United States, which duh right. We would not allow the
Soviet Union in to be buying up our farm land
and the property all around our military installations. Like if
the wait, is this a conspiracy theory? I'm promulgating here.
I just I want to I gotta be careful, no,
like we need to be looking at China as we
looked at the Soviet Union. And I know boomers remember that, well,
maybe not. It was the sixties. I don't think the
boomers really remember a whole lot from that time period.
But some boomers do, right. They weren't all at Woodstock,
despite what all of them claimed. But Gen X, we
remember this. We're the last generation to remember the Soviet Union.
The kids that were younger than us, they they have
no memory of the Wall coming down, right, They have
no memory of you know, why us beating the USSR
in hockey was such a big deal, Why Rocky Balboa
went to the Soviet Union to whip up on that
tall white dude like we were. Though, Gen X remembers
the Soviets were commis, man, and Commis they're bad. That's
really all you should take away from this. That's not
a conspiracy theory. That is historical record. Okay. Communism is bad, okay,
And the Tricoms are Commis. They lie, They lie about everything.
They're not just buying that farmland because they want some farmland.
They're buying that farmland so they can shut them down
if they need to that's why they want all of
the stuff made in China. Did you hear this? What
was that story about the drones? Hang on a second, here,
I've got it. I've got at someplace in my list.
It's about drone production. Yeah, Pentagon leaders are calling for
thousands of drones to face China. This is one of
the things that the war between Russia and Ukraine has
really highlighted, is that you listen to like like the
experts talk about the war fighting operations, like how this
stuff is actually occurring. And what's his name? The guy
prints Blackwater CEO guy, He was on a podcast I
was watching. He talked about this. He's like the stuff
that was working at the beginning, like Trump always talks
about I sent them javelins, Obama sent them you know,
bed linens, whatever. But the Russians have now adapted. They've
both adapted. So now like there this is a different
kind of warfare that they're engaging in. It's drones. They're
using drones for all sorts of stuff. And so the
Pentagon is like, hey, we need a ton of drones.
We need thousands and thousands of drones, and so hey,
let's put in some orders for all of the drones.
Slight problem. You can't make all the drones for the
American military, buy these American manufacturers because all the components
are in China. Slight problem. Yeah, it does raise the
question of, you know, why do we even have a
military industrial complex if we have to rely on our
enemy to give us the critical components of these war systems.
So that's a problem. But that's the same reason why
China wants all of the manufacturing. Why they want all
the military you know, production ingredients. They want the land,
and they want it around the military installations. Not for
good purposes, not for us. They're not doing it to
help us. So that's the house built. There's a sorry. Also,
the bill does not list specific countries. It refers to
governments subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. That's
the Senate bill, or sorry, the House bill. Now, the
Senate bill explicitly refers to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
Personally would like to see Canada thrown in there, just
you know, for just for measure, good measure. I can't
be too careful. The legislation is described as a state
effort to protect national security because food security is National
Security Center. Bill three ninety four is more restrictive than
its House counterpart. The proposal bars the prohibited foreign parties
from making claims to land situated within a twenty five
mile radius of a military installation, so that's smaller. It's
closer to the military bases or if they are underneath
special use air space as designated by the FAA. Of course,
Lisa Grafstein, Democrat from Wait County, pointed out there's a
growing population of Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans in the state,
and you know, I'm just worried this bill would ban
some of them from purchasing land if they are a
legal resident. Like Well, the answer is, if they're a
resident alien, they have the same right to acquire a
hold land as a citizen as long as they're a
resident in the state. But if you work for the
tri comms, then no, it seems pretty clear. All right.
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